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The Hanged Man Tarot Card Meaning
The Hanged Man is card XII of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of surrender, perspective, pause; reversed, of stalling, resistance. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
Major ArcanaWaterNeptune
Upright meaning
“Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: surrender, perspective, pause, letting go, new viewpoint.
Reversed meaning
“Selfishness, the crowd, body politic”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: stalling, resistance, delaying the inevitable.
The archetype
Sacrifice of the ego — voluntary suspension; the world seen from the unconscious side.
Astrology
Correspondence: Neptune.
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